Summary
Aron Walsh is a Full Professor in the Department of Materials. He leads the Materials Design Group.
Aron was awarded his PhD in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin. He then worked for the US Department of Energy at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), followed by a Marie Curie Fellowship hosted by University College London, and a Royal Society University Research Fellowship held at the University of Bath.
His research involves cutting-edge materials theory and similation applied to problems across solid state chemistry and physics, including materials for solar cells and solar fuels, information storage, batteries, thermoelectrics and solid-state lighting. He has an expertise in the theory of semiconductors and dielectrics, and is developing innovative solutions for materials data, informatics and design. His group published a review on machine learning for molecules and materials in Nature.
These activities have been supported by funding from the Royal Society, EPSRC, ERC, Horizon2020, and the Faraday Institution.
In 2015, Aron was awarded the EU-40 prize from the European Materials Research Society and the Chemistry Society Reviews Emerging Investigator Lectureship for his work on the theory of next-generation materials for solar energy conversion, including perovskite photovoltaics. In 2017, he was a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme prize in Chemistry, and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Aron features in the Highly Cited Researchers list. A full publication list can be found on Google Scholar.
Institute of Physics: JPhys Energy
Royal Society of Chemistry: Sustainable Energy & Fuels
American Institute of Physics: APL Materials
Publications
Journals
Wahila MJ, Lebens-Higgins ZW, Butler KT, et al., 2019, Accelerated optimization of transparent, amorphous zinc-tin-oxide thin films for optoelectronic applications, Apl Materials, Vol:7
Davies DW, Walsh A, Mudd JJ, et al., 2019, Identification of Lone-Pair Surface States on Indium Oxide, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol:123, ISSN:1932-7447, Pages:1700-1709
Wallace SK, Frost JM, Walsh A, 2019, Atomistic insights into the order-disorder transition in Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells from Monte Carlo simulations, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol:7, ISSN:2050-7488, Pages:312-321
Alberi K, Nardelli MB, Zakutayev A, et al., 2019, The 2019 materials by design roadmap, Journal of Physics D-applied Physics, Vol:52, ISSN:0022-3727
del Olmo L, Dommett M, Oevreeide IH, et al., 2018, Water oxidation catalysed by quantum- sized BiVO4+, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Vol:6, ISSN:2050-7488, Pages:24965-24970